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by 2thanks
on Sun Jun 30, 2024 at 04:02 AM PDT
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To wit: This is roughly the same dynamic that happens when there’s, say, a family abuser, and the spouse of the abuser gets much more vitriol for not protecting the kids than the actual, you know, abuser. Why? Because the spouse, unlike the abuser,...
by ElizaMazel
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 10:51 PM PDT
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I got this from Raw Story (which admitted THEY called for Biden to quit — I have something unprintable to say about THAT!) and I didn’t see it posted here. Since I can only print a selection, be sure to follow the link and read the whole thing — it’s a...
by CathyM
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 07:02 PM PDT
with 64 Recommends
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So at the start, let me confess that I have not watched even a second of this week's presidential debate. Not live, nor a video clip of the highlights (probably because there really weren't any other than maybe the "alley cat” remark). And that is...
by emobile
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 06:13 PM PDT
with 146 Recommends
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Looks like one major newspaper watched the debate and came to the correct conclusion. While many in the pundit class launched into a frenzied bout of pearl clutching and hand wringing afterwards, The Philadelphia Inquirer actually came to the correct...
by Austenite
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 07:03 PM PDT
with 359 Recommends
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Hurricane Beryl was just designated a hurricane at 5:00 pm, Beryl is the farthest east a hurricane has ever formed in the month of June. The last one to have formed farthest east in June was the Trinidad hurricane of 1933. I know this doesn’t really...
by B sides
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 02:43 PM PDT
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K, I just got a couple of thoughts. I have listened to pundits yap like baying dogs for two days now — and what I haven’t seen is a single prominent Democrat, Operative or Administration member who says that it’s “Lights Out” and time for Biden to pack...
by Frank Vyan Walton
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 02:41 PM PDT
with 229 Recommends
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Russian forces conducted a limited number of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of June 28 to 29. Donald Trump admits during the debate that he had a private conversation with Putin about his illegal invasion of Ukraine before it happened?...
by annieli
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 09:02 PM PDT
with 48 Recommends
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The first presidential debate of 2024 is now history - in more ways ways than one. It is the first ever presidential debate where one of the candidates - Donald Trump - was a convicted felon, with 54 more felony charges pending, and was ordered to pay...
by News Corpse
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 01:13 PM PDT
with 106 Recommends
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In the middle of the current heavy and heart-felt discussions on the outcome of last Thursday’s Presidential debate, please let us not forget that the war in Ukraine rages on and JRB’s staunch and stalwart support, in spite of Republican Trumpist...
by Decimus
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 01:40 PM PDT
with 269 Recommends
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Seriously, I am starting to feel I should flag every diary that demands Joe give up the race. Are y'all DETERMINED TO THROW THIS COUNTRY TO THE FASCISTS?? Because that's what would happen, guaranteed. Democrats need to stop tearing the party apart and...
by strawbale
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 12:33 PM PDT
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I cancelled my subs to the NYT and WaPo months ago because, you know. . . . I persisted with The Guardian because of their claim to deliver "fearless, investigative journalism" and to be "free from political and commercial influence." Ha, I say. Ha-ha!...
by Thomas Huxley
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 09:55 AM PDT
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Can’t write in detail due to weekend work, but just saw the first major post debate poll from a credible source — Morning Consult. While most voters including a 47% plurality of Democrats want Biden to step aside, Biden is also still ahead of Trump by...
by dge
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 08:31 AM PDT
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There are reports that Ukraine has carried out its first strikes with F-16s. There is no confirmation of this yet, so take it with a grain of salt. Also still unconfirmed is the Ukrainian strike on Russia’s big-ticket S-500 air-defense system in...
by quaoar
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 11:30 AM PDT
with 468 Recommends
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'Somewhere in his discussion of Putin’s invasion of E. Ukraine in February, 2022 (during the ‘debate’ with Biden), Trump said: “Putin saw that, he said, you know what, I think we’re going to go in and maybe take my—this was his dream' How can Trump...
by DrLou
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 09:08 AM PDT
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Somebody help me out here, but I can’t find a link to when the New York Times must have called for Trump to drop out of the race for the good of the nation? Maybe it was way back when he announced his campaign on November 15, 2022 less than two years...
by topdog08
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 06:34 AM PDT
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What is a Gish Gallop? It is a form of gaslighting, and it is especially effective on someone with a stutter, as Biden has. It is similar to what Trump did to Biden during a debate in 2020. In that case, though, the lack of muting on the mics left...
by DRo
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 07:26 AM PDT
with 326 Recommends
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One of the truly funny men whose career I followed from its early daze, Martin Mull had passed on at age 80. Excellent biography is linked so I won’t repeat it. I saw him live in Evanston in the 70s and he was brilliant both musically and comically....
by pholkiephred
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 04:32 AM PDT
with 180 Recommends
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I didn't watch the recent debate, because I don't have a television. Over the years I find it's a good thing because I've gotten lots of work done. Partly because of the lack of such a readymade distraction, I seem to have developed a way of life that...
by Audreybeardsley
on Sat Jun 29, 2024 at 03:35 AM PDT
with 207 Recommends
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Lawrence O’Donnell is not often in the host’s chair of “The Last Word” on Friday nights, but he made an exception last night. Look on that as a public service. View his opener on MSNBC. You’ll feel better. [It’s beyond my poor power to add or detract.]...
by Calanbo
on Fri Jun 28, 2024 at 11:27 PM PDT
with 326 Recommends
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